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technirvana writes "Blizzard Entertainment, owners of World of Warcraft, announced today that the game now has more than 10 million paying subscribers around the world. Online gameplay costs an average of $15 USD per month. Those 10 million paying subscribers include 5.5 million players in Asia, 2.5 million in the US and 2 million in Europe. The Warcraft brand was first introduced in 1994 and World of Warcraft was launched in 2001."

I'm so tired of people making such statements. You get ZERO new content for FREE. You pay a monthly subscription which funds new development, among other things. You PAID for the new content. It is not free!

The next, and qualifying, sentence was..

Compare this to something like old-school EverQuest where your money just kind of vanished and every single new addition was through a paid expansion pack.

That seems like a better than average value proposition in this field. Perhaps your anger actually stems from your difficulties with reading comprehension. You would feel more at home on digg.

Dear Slashdot,I am cheap. Please teach me how to hack the game so that I don't have to pay Blizzard. Clearly, since I can have 10 characters, I should be able to log in simultaneously so that Blizzard can only get 1/10th the profit they are making from subscriptions (since everyone would share). I have no business sense so this all makes sense to me. Doing illegal things is ok as long as it saves me money and the company is profitable.

You know what really annoys me about that stereotype? The lengths that geeks will go to disprove it, dragging along their often-bored-and-disinterested girlfriends and wives along to events as if to prove "See? I'm getting laid!" It's ridiculous, and my beautiful wife who is here with me now agrees.